For text works, especially ones we want others to read, I think copyright is waaaay too long. The idea that we are going to be stopping poeple from making money printing stuff on tshirts, making podcasts or printing books for like 100 years seems perverse. At most, claim it for 5 years, but even that is the wrong call imo.
The only thing I think deserves copyright that EAs might write here is creative writing. But again, I think remixing is cool and 5 years is more than enough for 95% of works to take 95% of the profit they’ll ever make.
Copyright is generally awful and I mourn all the culture and creativity we lose because we can’t remix works for like 100 years.
For text works, especially ones we want others to read, I think copyright is waaaay too long. The idea that we are going to be stopping poeple from making money printing stuff on tshirts, making podcasts or printing books for like 100 years seems perverse. At most, claim it for 5 years, but even that is the wrong call imo.
The only thing I think deserves copyright that EAs might write here is creative writing. But again, I think remixing is cool and 5 years is more than enough for 95% of works to take 95% of the profit they’ll ever make.
Copyright is generally awful and I mourn all the culture and creativity we lose because we can’t remix works for like 100 years.